2000/306/EC: Council Decision of 30 March 2000 on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and the Czech Republic concerning the extension of the common communication network/common system interface (CCN/CSI) within the framework of the Convention on a common transit procedure
Date: 2000-03-30
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Czechia, agreement (EU), computer network, information system, transit

L 102/58

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

27.4.2000

COUNCIL DECISION

of 30 March 2000

on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community and the Czech Republic concerning the extension of the common communication
network/common system interface (CCN/CSI) within the framework of the Convention on a
common transit procedure

(2000/306/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 133 together with the
first sentence of Article 300(2) and the first subparagraph of
Article 300(3) thereof,

(5)

(6)

The Commission has negotiated the extension of
CCN/CSI to the Czech Republic.

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
concerning this extension should be approved,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The implementation of the computerised system intro-
duced by Decision No 1/1999 of the EC/EFTA Joint
Committee on common transit (1) requires the setting up
of an international computer network to make possible
the exchange of
information between the competent
authorities of the parties to the Convention of 20 May
1987 on a common transit procedure (2), hereinafter
referred to as ‘the Convention’.

The European Community has already developed the
common communication network/common system
interface (CCN/CSI) which fulfils the necessary require-
ments.

Decision No 2/1999 of the EC/EFTA Joint Committee
on common transit provides that the CCN/CSI is to be
used by all contracting parties to the Convention (3) and
that the financial participation of the partner countries
and other related issues will be determined by mutual
agreement between the Community and each of the
partner countries.

On 22 October 1999 the Council authorised the
Commission of the European Communities to negotiate
with each of
the non-Community partner countries,
parties to the Convention, an agreement in the form of
an exchange of letters on the extension of CCN/CSI to
each of them.

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the European Community and the Czech Republic concerning
the extension of
the common communication network/
common system interface (CCN/CSI), in the framework of the
Convention on a common transit procedure,
is hereby
approved on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of
Letters is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the person(s) authorised to sign the Agreement in the form of
an Exchange of Letters so as to render it binding on the
Community.

Article 3

This Decision shall take effect on the day of its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Brussels, 30 March 2000.

For the Council

The President

J. SÓCRATES

(1) OJ L 65, 12.3.1999, p. 50.
(2) OJ L 226, 13.8.1987, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 119, 7.5.1999, p. 53.